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Lowdermilk, Margaret; Lampley, Jim; Tweed, Stephanie – Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 2017
The purpose of this study was to determine the learning styles of Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) students and associate degree Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA) students and identify any association between their learning styles and examine the association between gender and age by learning style. Participants included 337 DPT and PTA students…
Descriptors: Occupational Therapy, Allied Health Occupations Education, Cognitive Style, Graduate Students
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Cornell, Dewey; Maeng, Jennifer L.; Burnette, Anna Grace; Jia, Yuane; Huang, Francis; Konold, Timothy; Datta, Pooja; Malone, Marisa; Meyer, Patrick – School Psychology Quarterly, 2018
Threat assessment has been widely endorsed as a school safety practice, but there is little research on its implementation. In 2013, Virginia became the first state to mandate student threat assessment in its public schools. The purpose of this study was to examine the statewide implementation of threat assessment and to identify how threat…
Descriptors: School Safety, State Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, School Surveys
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Kong, Xiaojing; Davis, Laurie Laughlin; McBride, Yuanyuan; Morrison, Kristin – Applied Measurement in Education, 2018
Item response time data were used in investigating the differences in student test-taking behavior between two device conditions: computer and tablet. Analyses were conducted to address the questions of whether or not the device condition had a differential impact on rapid guessing and solution behaviors (with response time effort used as an…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Computers, Handheld Devices
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Borowski, Sarah K.; Zeman, Janice; Braunstein, Kara – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2018
Best friend expected emotion socialization responses were examined as a potential explanation for the link between social anxiety and youths' friendship quality and dysfunctional emotion regulation (ER). A community sample of 202 young adolescents ([X-bar][subscript age] = 12.66; 52.5% girls, 75.7% White) within 101 same-sex, reciprocated best…
Descriptors: Friendship, Anxiety, Social Development, Emotional Development
Fobbs, Timothy J. – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Students who register for classes late have always been a challenge for community colleges. The student who registers late creates a burden on the enrollment staff, and they create academic achievement challenges for themselves as well. Late class registration has been linked to lower overall GPA's, and to overall lower academic performance. This…
Descriptors: School Registration, Scheduling, Change, Community Colleges
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Denham, Susanne A.; Bassett, Hideko H.; Brown, Chavaughn; Way, Erin; Steed, Jessica – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2015
Differences in emotion knowledge by children's age, gender, and socioeconomic risk status, as well as associations of emotion knowledge with executive control, social competence, and early classroom adjustment, were investigated. On emotion knowledge, 4- and 5-year-olds scored higher than 3-year-olds, with girls showing this effect more strongly.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Emotional Response, Success, Age Differences
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Foroughi, Cyrus K.; Werner, Nicole E.; McKendrick, Ryan; Cades, David M.; Boehm-Davis, Deborah A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
Previous research has shown that there is a time cost (i.e., a resumption lag) associated with resuming a task following an interruption and that the longer the duration of the interruption, the greater the time cost (i.e., resumption lag increases as interruption duration increases). The memory-for-goals model (Altmann & Trafton, 2002)…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Short Term Memory, Task Analysis, Attention Control
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Springer, Sarah I. – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2016
Group counseling is an important treatment modality used to support clients in a variety of therapeutic settings. This article highlights the results of an exploratory study that examined site supervisory factors that predicted group leader self-efficacy for preservice school counselors. Results of multiple regression analyses suggest meaningful…
Descriptors: School Counselors, Counselor Training, Predictor Variables, Self Efficacy
Melton, Brian S. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Mormon college students may leave or delay their studies to serve missions for their church, typically for 18 to 24 months. This dissertation studies the impact of serving a mission on the spiritual development and psychological wellbeing of these students. Using a two-factor ANOVA fixed-effects, nonexperimental design, five measurement scales on…
Descriptors: Spiritual Development, Psychological Patterns, Well Being, Religious Cultural Groups
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Tully, Melissa; Vraga, Emily K. – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2018
Developing news media literacy skills is recognized as an important part of becoming an informed citizen, but not enough research examines how growth in media literacy differs by individual characteristics. Using a panel study of undergraduate students, we examine which predispositions predict growth in news media literacy beliefs over the…
Descriptors: News Media, Media Literacy, Individual Differences, Undergraduate Students
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Heilbrun, Anna; Cornell, Dewey; Konold, Timothy – Journal of School Violence, 2018
The overuse of school suspensions has been linked to a host of negative outcomes, including racial disparities in discipline. School climate initiatives have shown promise in reducing these disparities. The present study used the Authoritative School Climate Survey--which measures disciplinary structure and student support as key measures of…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Authoritarianism, Educational Environment, Suspension
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Cornell, Dewey; Maeng, Jennifer; Huang, Francis; Shukla, Kathan; Konold, Timothy – School Psychology Review, 2018
School psychologists are frequently called upon to assess students who have made verbal or behavioral threats of violence against others, a practice commonly known as threat assessment. One critical issue is whether the outcomes of a threat assessment generate the kind of racial disparities widely observed in school disciplinary practices. In…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Racial Differences, School Psychology, School Psychologists
Coles, Caron N. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this research study was to examine the attitudes held by school-based administrators, teachers, and professional school counselors regarding ideal and actual roles of the professional school counselor. The survey instrument utilized in this research study, the PSCRFA, is grounded in the ASCA model and reflective of current school…
Descriptors: Counselor Role, School Personnel, Surveys, Public Schools
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Chittum, Jessica R.; Jones, Brett D. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2017
One purpose of this study was to determine whether patterns existed in pre-high school students' motivation-related perceptions of their science classes. Another purpose was to examine the extent to which these patterns were related to their science identification, gender, grade level, class effort, and intentions to persist in science. We…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Science Education, Student Attitudes, Rural Schools
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Clayton, M. Annette – Children & Schools, 2017
The study discussed in this article examined the relationships between support from parents, teachers, and peers; contextual risks; and select achievement outcomes in a representative sample of African American female high school seniors enrolled in an urban school district in southeastern Virginia. Quantitative analysis revealed that some support…
Descriptors: African American Students, Females, High School Seniors, Context Effect
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